Most boards start the year with good intentions and no calendar. By March, everything is reactive — a special meeting here, a rushed paper there. It doesn't have to be this way.
A proper annual board calendar maps every meeting to a purpose: when strategy gets reviewed, when the budget is set, when the CEO is formally assessed, when governance itself gets audited. It's not exciting work, but it's the difference between a board that leads and one that just attends.
The test is simple: could a new director read your board calendar and know exactly what the year holds, without asking? If not, it's not a calendar — it's a list of dates.
Build it once, properly, and every meeting afterward gets easier.
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Free first step: the the board calendar template.
With respect,
Annie